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I hope you enjoy our first tutorial and the little photo shoot we did in beautiful Charleston right after. Please, could Kat be any more beautiful?

Thanks to Jake for filming and editing, and for shooting the stills. Thanks to Kat for being the most perfectly gorgeous model ever and THANK YOU, HDOF readers for being patient! We have a few more in the works, Im really looking forward to getting better at these, Haha! Meaning, please excuse my awkwardness during the intro, I somehow managed to make it look like Im reading cue cards. Im not. And I swear my voice sounds different in my head than it does on video, does anyone else feel like that? Next time Ill practice saying Unique New York 100 times before hand.

**note**if you run the flat iron down more quickly, youll get less curl and more of a bend effect. Same goes for not turning the flat iron and just cocking your wrist all the way down, youll get a slight wave if you prefer that to what we do in the video. Keep in mind that the flat iron waves are meant to be shaken out and played with!

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24 Responses to Tutorial: Flat Iron Waves

I hate being filmed/photographed because I always think I look/sound different than I actually do. Im much cooler in my own head!
Anyways I have so been doing this wrong! I didnt know you kept twisting on your way down! No wonder my flat iron waves always look weird! Thank you

Quick questionyou seem to pull the flat iron a lot more slowly than I do. What temp is your iron set at? I have fine, curly hair and I usually set my iron at about 190C, but Im going down the hair about twice as fast as you are. What temp/speed would you recommend?

Awesome tut Reagan! Cant wait to try it at home Your model should be an actual runway model if she isnt already. Then she should hire you as her personal hair dresser on fire and Jake as her personal photographer. Gorgeous!

I love that! Everyone keeps telling me to do waves with a flat iron, but I could never make it work. I cant wait to try it! I love your tips and the tutorial was great. (and my voice sounds totally different in my head too)

Thanks for the tutorial Reagan. Q: Does the direction you twist and the direction you angle it affect the direction of the curl? Could you elaborate on that a little more in writing maybe. Thats the part I seem to struggle with.

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I have been experimenting with my hair to get soft waves and this is the best method by far! Your video really helped me master the technique and I have been rocking pretty waves almost every day!

Ive tried doing flat-iron waves about a dozen times and can never make it work because my straightener wont glide through my hair. Ive tried cleaning the goo off of the straightener, putting different styling creams in my hair, using a lighter grip, etc.- and nothing will work. As soon as I clamp and rotate the iron, its stuck! Any suggestions?

Thanks for a most informative (and well made) video tutorial. A quick question: it looks like youre using a different flat iron than those you listed in another post. Could you tell me which one youre using here? It looks like it worked great for waving, and Im trying to decide which flat iron to buy my daughter (she has hair exactly like your model.)